The organization that ignited the tea party as a national mass movement gave Mitt Romney perhaps his biggest victory yet, deciding to drop its opposition to his candidacy, a top executive in the group told The Washington Times.

FreedomWorks, which organized the Sept. 12, 2009, mass demonstration on the Mall, says that while it will not give an explicit endorsement, the time has come for Republicans to unite around the former Massachusetts governor and focus on defeating President Obama.

It is a statistical fact that the numbers favor Mitt Romney, FreedomWorks Vice President Russ Walker told The Times on Tuesday. We are dedicated to defeating Obama and electing a conservative Senate that will help Romney repeal Obamacare and address the nations economic and spending challenges.

Mr. Romney has been winning a majority of delegates and has more than twice the number that former Sen. Rick Santorum has, and he continued that run Tuesday with a victory in Illinois.

Agree. Better Romney than Obama any day of the week. Four more years of Obama and with major lifetime Supreme Court appointments and the rest of the federal judicairy, we are cooked if Obama is re-elected. The old adage is true, never cut off your nose to spite your face.

Already seeing the antiSantorum ads here in Wisconsin. I would have voted for Perry, now Newt, but never Romney. I know there are those that call me a cry baby or whatever. I refuse to support Obama and, all Romney is is Obama lite.

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posted on 03/21/2012 9:58:01 AM PDT
by ozaukeemom
(No to Romney, no how, no way, no money, no vote)

I’m Anti-Romney so as I’ve seen politicans and some in the tea party support him, I have said the tea party was corrupt and the GOP took it over (what is the word I am looking for?). But all I care about is the tea party types and similar like minded conservatievs in the base. Because they will band together against Romney. My state went for Santorum as did others. They will stand against Romney.

Romney was caught on camera admitting that he’s a progressive. He defends the bailouts. Romney signed socialized medicine and cap & trade into law in Massachusetts. Then, in a 2009 op-ed, he urged Obama to adopt the individual mandate on a national level.

He’s not a RINO. He’s not Obama-lite. He IS Obama.

Don’t let the establishment snooker you into voting for a socialist just because he has an R in front of his name. If he wins the nomination, focus on flipping the Senate.

The GOP-e doesn’t care about winning. They just want to maintain the status quo. I’m listening to Rush Limbaugh right now - he’s making a big deal about Boehner and Cantor giving in to Obama on a tax hike, and Obama walking out to lie about it in a statement to the public. Rush is going on and on about Obama’s lie, while he should *also* be ripping Boehner and Cantor to shreds.

Boehner and Cantor just plunged another knife in the back of America, and they truly don’t care about the economy. And that’s how the GOP-e is.

We do have the opportunity to start a whole new Party while Romney betrays Conservatives and goes back to his real agenda, Moderate, “Can't we all get along?”, something for everyone, pandering.

Romney will mainly slow down the disease a bit, which will give us time to build a new party system. We could not possibly do it with Obama in office. He would declare us illegal under his new Executive Order.

Romney has a good chance of winning, so that is our only hope left to stop this. This will be similar to using a pest species in our garden, to kill destructive vermin, which in turn comes a time to get rid of the original pest species. (Romney) And above all else, I don't count out the possibility of a Brokered Convention or immediate 3rd party effort.

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posted on 03/21/2012 10:17:16 AM PDT
by PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)

I like Gingrich but he’s going nowhere unfortunately
April 3rd Vote Santorum Here is why

A Hydra Is In The Mourning After Pill
OBMACARE is a 1.76 Trillion $ Hydra a 9 headed snake
which Can only be Destroyed By A Firebrand
by L.J .Keslin http://www.theusmat.com

Of the three GOP candidates remaining opposing Mitt Romney . Only one man had the courage to take on a what they call a third rail issue...Eugenics... and has had his character asassinated for it... He’s been pummeled from both sides called , a women hater ,, a religious nut, ..a one trick pony, Santorum spends an hour discussing oil and the economy then 10 seconds comenting about pornography but guess what MSM and Santorum detractors will talk about... certainly not ,what’s really in the 1.76 trillion dolllar wonder called Obamacare ,,...!; Population control.... and all that goes with it. Including cost, 1.76 trillion.

To pay off a trillion dollars at $1.00 a second would take 31,668 years. At 100 billion dollars a second only 10 years.4 months*.. Not including interest.There is no way to “fix” Obamacare.. This is a Christmas gift that must be returned by someone determined to do so not just exchanged .* A billion seconds=31 years+

Two groups late in the last century led in Eugenic development. The Nazis and the Communists. Few know or remember how the Nazis began. First citing “health risk” “nicht rauchen” baning cigarette smoking, Then terminating Down Syndrome children, and then on to mentally defective children and adults,. then on to besides murdering opponents, races. All done to make the German Reich healthy and last a thousand years.

So you go to the MSM (Main Stream Media) the so called “gate keepers” for information about these things and you find closed gates .. The sorcerers in the media magically reduce a 2000 page Hydra , a Greek legendary nine headed venomous serpent that must be slain by a firebrand ,and morph it into the mourning after pill and a “womans health care issue.”

The “gatekeepers” never tell you that Obamacare bill creators and the Amish are exempt from being in Obamacare. The drafters are on record actually calling it population control and demanding Catholic bishops support it.* Their statements are out there .But not mentioned by the so called gate-keepers but by the AM the alternate media, meaning radio talk shows like Limbaugh’s and websites like Britebart’s Government . Places Obama wants to shut down and will once re-elected *Joel Pollak Britebart Government .

Women surrender their rights when they buy into this monstrosity . That is what’s in Obamacare which is deceptively titled “The Affordable Health Care Act” .Yet Obamacom tzars who hail from that foreign land, the deep swamp of Acadamica are all preaching the utopian wonders of Eugenics. Why it’s the final solution (remember him ?) population control. Which is part of the Obamacare package.
Let’s hope Santorum decides not to shy away from this issue miss characterized as only a social issued. It is both a social and financial issue $ 1.75 trillion is in no way a minor expenditure. Population control affects US from the cradle to the grave. .but Santorum can not speakout and act against this despicable movement ? Particularly when that is being shoved on religious groups by the Demo-Coms . Especially when they are ignoring constitutional rights...

Recently private job creation projects rejection by the socialists controlling new demo-com party should send a signal to the Republican bleeding heart establishment . “Bi-partisanship” doesn’t exist with the socialists who have taken over the democrat party and to the GOP leading presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Mr Romney should start realizing Obama is a “socialist”.. Everyone including the monthly liberal magazine Newsweek knows he is but Mr Romney just can’t seem to get around to saying it . Preventing an iron mine in Wisconsin for a desperate area in need of jobs or preventing the Keystone pipeline transfering oil from Canada to American refineries decisions which would have provided employment to thousands and reduced gas prices. was not on the new demo-com agenda.which has taken over. Common good is not their concern but their welfare is.. not ours .

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posted on 03/21/2012 10:23:52 AM PDT
by mosesdapoet
("The best way to punish a country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great p/p)

That will be all the more motivation to get a viable 3rd party in to fire the GOP. They have contributed to the demise of the country as much as the Democrats have.

Since Newt left the House, they squandered and undid everything he worked so hard to create. And they did it in less than 10 years. What is even more sickening is, Clinton and the Democrats took credit for it, and so very few Conservatives even understand what Newt actually did for us.

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posted on 03/21/2012 10:27:58 AM PDT
by PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)

I listened to Romney’s speech last night and I was impressed both by what he said and by his delivery. I confess he sounded as if he meant the conservative statements he made. Regardless, I’ll vote for a syphilitic camel if it’s that or Obama.

The thing that disturbs me the most is that the freshman reps, along with Boehner and Cantor, show that even if we take the Senate, Congress will not fight for us. Conservatism needs to take the Presidency.

Any tea party group that endorses Romney has abandoned the roots of the tea party, which are constitutionally limited small govt and fiscal responsibility. Romney is a big govt spender, which is why the GOP-e loves him. He will continue their status quo agenda.

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posted on 03/21/2012 10:55:05 AM PDT
by tentmaker
(vote for John Galt)

I read this on FR and it ticked me off so much I called Freedom Works and demanded to know the procedures for obtaining ALL of my contributions back from them. I spoke to several people until I ended up with Mignon May, Membership Marketing Coordinator. She pleaded with me to read the Daily Caller article posted today. So I am withholding my request until I have had time to digest the article. See it here: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/21/influential-tea-party-group-not-ready-to-coalesce-behind-romney/

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posted on 03/21/2012 11:26:54 AM PDT
by TheCause
("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")

At the moment, you are correct about Newt, but Newt’s contribution will become vital later on. This will be his calling, to help organize and guide the direction our new party will take. Newt is far from finished.

Newt will also be the hitching post, for the new party platform. I firmly believe this.

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posted on 03/21/2012 11:45:59 AM PDT
by PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)

I'm not voting for the top ticket either in November if Romney gets it. It's the ONLY THING I (or you) can do as payback for this railroad job.

My boss commented on what a great campaign Romney is running (he's GOP but not supporting Romney). My response? OF COURSE he's running a "great campaign" but is it really so great when he's outspending all his opponents COMBINED?

Dropping opposition is not the same thing as giving support. What are they supposed to do, endorse Obama?

Romney is going to be the nominee. That is just the painful infuriating truth of it.

We can either insure Obama’s re-election or we can hold our noses and vote for idiot Romney and have some slim chance of repealing Obamacare.

If Obama wins, then we get PERMANENT Obamacare and another 2 Obama Scotus picks who will make Kagan and Sortamywhore look like heterosexuals. His next two picks will be outright communists. Fortunately, the GOP will retake the Senate, so we should be able to block the worst of his picks.

But you know the surrender-prone GOP. They will reject his first obviously communist picks and then approve of his next ones.

We are stuck with Romney or Obama. Make your choice. I still would rather hit the wall at 70mph rather than at 140mph.

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